Lawyers are delivering closing arguments in the trial of the first two officers to be prosecuted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain
FILE - A makeshift memorial stands at a site across the street from where Elijah McClain was stopped by Aurora, Colo., Police Department officers before family members hold a news conference, July 3, 2020, in Aurora, Colo. Lawyers are to deliver closing arguments Tuesday, Oct.
Prosecution witnesses testified that the sedative ketamine killed McClain. But prosecutors also offered medical testimony that the restraint of McClain by Aurora officers Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt triggered a series of health problems that made it hard for McClain to breathe and more vulnerable to a fatal overdose.
“If they fail to act, they don’t go home to their family that night,” Sisson said. He added that the officers repeatedly told McClain to stop fighting and had no choice but to forcefully subdue him after Roedema shouted out during the confrontation that McClain had reached for another officer's gun. Roedema and Rosenblatt are charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and second-degree assault — all felonies. An assault conviction carries the most serious penalty, up to 16 years in prison.
This moment can be heard but not seen on body camera video. The extensive video of the moments leading to his death
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